Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 237

Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

And even if they wanted the index return, there is essentially no way to buy (or sell) a broad-based basket of VC funds in the way you can trade the S&P 500 or Russell 2000 or other public equity index. Startup outcomes are a power law distribution rather than a standard distribution. What about fund of funds (FoF), you ask?

LP 176

LP Accredited Investor Carried Interest Distribution 176

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

A method of solving time-consuming computing tasks by utilizing multiple computers usually united into a parallel computing system is commonly referred to as grid computing or distributed computing. The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. Prime time. Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Search 179

Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. Continuing the obsession with deeper relationships… TBT is a newspaper that’s updated 80k times a day, how does the Recency distribution look like? Let your competition be lame and play by 2000 worldviews. Unique Page Views helps us quantify content content consumption.

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 143

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Database, File Storage & Information Management Pixily – An online service that lets you aggregate, organize, find and share your documents. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. I have around 2000 emails to verify. Awsome post btw. Yalcin Great list.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

as well as a more detailed description of the distribution of outcomes: Kauffman Foundation Angel Returns Study and NESTA Angel Investing Study. It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry. The distribution of returns from the different U.S. and the U.K.,

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 152

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

It turns out that network effects can be broken – Amazon and StubHub took on eBay in the mid 2000’s. Start with aggregating scarce and in-demand inventory. The prevailing consensus at the time was that B2B marketplaces were too hard (e.g. Investment stopped, and entrepreneurs focused on other categories.

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